Apartment construction.



PATENTED SEPT. 27, 1904.

W. 0. JAMES. APARTMENT CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1903.

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I. I I I .I I I I Patented September 27, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLARD (J. JAMES, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

APARTMENT CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,154, dated September 27, 1904. I Application filed July 8, 1903. Serial No. 164,659. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, WILLARD C. JAMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apartment Construction, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a bed-apartment construction, wherein a'folding bed is contained or supported in a wall-casing of a room and when the bed is lowered for use its headboard forms the partition between this-room room"; this headboard order to give the bed into the casing.

A further objectof the invention is to provide for ventilation of the bedclothing of the folding bed in an inconspicuous and convenient manner.

Another object of the invention is to probeing made movable in room to fold or swing vide for ventilation of a plurality of apartments where one apartment shuts off another from proximity to the outer air.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure I is a plan of the apartment construction, showing the bed folded up. Fig. II is a vertical section on the line II II of Fig. I. Fig. III is a plan of a portion of the apartment adjacent to the folding bed, which is shown in lowered position.

1 2 3 designate three adjoining apartments. A folding bed 4; is pivoted in an opening 5 in the wall-casing 6 between apartments 1 and 2 and may be formed on its front and lower side as a mantel, pier-glass, or other article suitable for forming a part of the wall of the room. The bed is pivoted on trunnions 7 and is also desirably made to slide on said trunnions, the sides or vanes of the bed being formed with slots 8, engaging over rollers 28 on said trunnions. A well or recess 27 is also desirably provided back of the wall-casing 6 to receive the bottom or inner end of the bed when the bed is pushed in and folded up, as indicated in Fig. II. On the front or under side of the bed suitable supporting-legs 9 are provided, which may be formed as shelves for 5 the pier-glass above referred to. A bottom and an. adjoining board or pier 10 is provided at the bottom of the opening 5 in the wall-casing to conceal the joint at the bottom of the bed when the provided corner-posts 12,carrying suitable rack means for holding bedclothes when the bed is not in use. Such means may consist of cords 13, secured at one end to one of these posts and detachably secured at their other ends by hooks 14 to the other post. When the bed is not in use, the bedclothes are secured to these cords by any suitable clips or pins, and the bed is then raised and the bedclothes hang vertically from these cords, the latter being so placed as to keep the bedclothes separated sufiiciently for ventilation. When raised in this manner, the bedclothesextend in the adjacent apartment 2, which may be assumed to be a subsidiary apartment, little used in the day-time; but when the bed is lowered and pulled out this subsidiary apartment is clear and free to be put to any use to which it is adapted. Thus it may be used as a supplementary bedroom, a folding cot or bed 15 being provided therein.

A movable headboard 16 is supported by links, strips, or bars 17, pivoted at their upper ends to the wallic asing 6 or to brackets, lugs, or extensions thereon and at their lower end to said headboard, so as to allow said board to swing forward by gravity to close the opening 5 when the bed is in lowered position. The headboard then acts as a partition or closure between the two apartments 1 and 2. When bed 4 is folded up into the wallcasing, its posts 12 engage with the headboard and push it back into the subsidiary apartment 2. The ends of the posts may be provided with antifriction balls or rollers 18 to diminish the friction thereof against the headboard in this operation. The headboard when thus pushed back serves as a screen for the bedclothes when the latter are supported on the rack means, as above described.

Room 2 may be assumed to be an interior room in a series of apartments, and to provide for ventilation and lighting thereof I form the adjacent room 3, between it and the outside wall of the house, with a lower ceiling than dow 21 control the ventilation of apartment 2 as well as of apartment 3. Apartment 3 may also be a subsidiary apartment or compartment to main apartment 1, doors 24 and 25 opening from the latter into apartments 2 and 3.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In an apartment construction, two apartments, an intervening wall-casing having an opening therethrough, a bed pivotally mounted in'said opening, and an end-board for the bed movableto and from the casing, adapted to beopereted by the movement of the bed 2. In an apartment construction, two-apart-' ments', an intervening wall-casing having-an opening thereth rough, a bed pivotally mounted in said opening, a movable end board-for- -said bed adapted :in one position'to act as a closure for said opening, and means operated by the movement of the bed to remove-said end board from said opening.

3. In an apartment construction, two apart' ments, an intervening wall-casing having an openingtherethrough, a bed pivotally mount ed-insaid opening, an endboard ,for the-bed movably supported and connected tobe operated by the movement of the bed, and adapted toact as a closurefor said opening when-the bed is lowered-and to bemoved awayfrom' said opening when the bed is raised.

4.- In an apartmentconstruction; two apartments, an intervening wall-casing :havingian opening'therethrough, a bed pivotall y mounted in said opening, an end board for the bed movably supported and connected to be operated by the movement of the bed, and adapted to actas a closure for said opening when the bed is lowered and to be moved awayfrom saidopening when the bed is raised, and rack means onthe bed located between the bed and end board when the bed is raised, to support and ventilate the bedclothing.

5. A wall-casing having an opening, a bed pivoted in said opening, a ventilating-compartment back ofsaid opening, and rackmeans on the bed adapted to extend in said compartment when the bed is raised, said rack means consisting of cords attached to the bed at one end and separately connected 'to the bed at their other ends.

6. In an apartment construction,two adjoining apartments, one of which has a ceiling lower than that of the other, said other apartment opening into the space above said lower ceiling, and a window in the low-ceilinged apartment extending both above and below the level of the low ceiling.

7. In an apartment construction, a main apartment and two subsidiaryapartments, a

foldingbed pivoted in :the wall between the main apartment 'and one of =the:subsidiary apartments, rack means on' said folding bed* and extending in the one'subsidiary apart' ment when'the bed is raised to servefor' the I support and ventilation of bedclothing; and a ventilating-passageextending from the one subsidiary apartment, over the other sub'sidiary apartment, to the outer air.

8. In an apartment construction, a mainapartment, two subsidiary apartments communicatlng therewith, one of saidapartments havingits ceiling-lower than thatof= the other,"

afolding bed pivoted between the main apartment and the subsidiaryapartment 'havinga higher ceiling, rack means on said bed adapted" to extend, when'raised, into said subsidiary apartment to serve for. the support and venti lation of bedclothing,'and a windowin the other subsidiaryapartment extending up so as to open-also into'the space above the ceiling thereof, and said space communicating with the "other subsidiary apartment? In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence oftwosubscribing witnesses, at'Los- 'Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California,

this 27th:day of June, 1903.

WILLARD 0. JAMES: Witnesses:

ARTHUR P; KNIGHT, JULIA TOWNSEND. I 

